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  1. 25 minutes ago, phbart said:

    One thing I noticed is the "Detention Block Ambush" portion of the "The Last Battle", from about 1:00 to the end of it (when Han tries to stall the troopers from the radio, and Lukes rushes to the Princess' cell to rescue her and delivers the memorable line "I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you!), a different take was used on the '77 album that is not present on the '93 Anthology nor the '97 SE. According to the booklet, takes 150 to 154 were recorded, and takes 153 and 154 were selected (which I assume are the takes used to create both the film mix and the 97 SE as well). The curious thing is that the 2018 dismaster did not replicate that unique take of the '77 album, so it remains exclusive to the album (and the 2016 re-release of it).

     

    Is it at least the same on the 198x CD?

  2. 14 minutes ago, Jay said:

     

    Nice painting. But you notice everyone gets to be heroic and dramatic except Shatner? We have to use "KHAAAAAAAAN!" OTOH, he is in it a LOT. TOS Shatner is in it three times by my count. Tribbles, Gorn, Headshot. I don't think any other actor gets multiple pics from the same show. Whoops. Quinto is in there twice.

     

    But damn! That's pretty complete, isn't it? They have animated AND live action Lower Decks.

     

    I do love how all the leads with the biggest heads are bunched up at the top but they gave Nimoy his own place.

     

    No Saavik? Either of them?

  3. Hey! Why aren't you tying these Fremen who are obviously based on Middle Eastern cultures more closely to their influences?

     

    Well, you know at the end of the movie they wage a holy war across the known universe driven by a fanatical faith in a messiah and are the most feared slaughterers in the history of the universe?

     

    Oh. So... Can we keep them just kind of generically "foreign / non-white"? Is that OK? That Zendaya lady, she could fit that, right?

  4. 38 minutes ago, Jay said:

     

    It's very authentic.  I read after that they filmed it throughout several MA towns including on my good friends live in nearby here.

     

    I can't tell you what that time and place was like as an adult, but I was a little kid there and then and it's eerie.

     

    I showed my kids the trailer and they remarked that it looked like "an old thing". Which confused them because they knew it was new and they knew who Giamatti is.

  5. On 24/03/2024 at 12:17 PM, Jay said:

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    The Holdovers

     

    I liked this movie!  It reminded me of a type of movie that used to be prolific, but isn't made that much any more for whatever reason.  Just a nice comedic drama with characters you care about and good story beats that cause them to learn, grow, and/or make changes in their lives.  I liked the setting (winter 1970/71 New England), it felt like my childhood with actual snow everywhere for the wintertime.  And the acting was good all around, though I am kind of surprised that Divine Joy Randolph won an Oscar for it since her character has the least amount of growth and range for an actor to play with; She starts the movie a grieving mother and ends the movie a grieving mother.  Paul Giamatti had much more to do, though I'd probably have to watch Oppenheimer again to see if I thought him or Cillian Murphy were more deserving of Best Actor this year.

     

    Nice film I will certain see again some time.  One aspect I found curious was that is is only rated R for a small amount of swearing, couldn't have been more than 5 or 6.  It seemed like you could easily turn those into other words and have a nice PG film for the entire family to enjoy.  Strange choice to keep it R.

     

    It's on Peacock

     

    I'm a cranky old stick in the mud, (and I've said this elsewhere) but some of the swearing was the only thing that took me out of the remarkable recreation of the era. It wasn't that the characters wouldn't be swearing, it's just that the swearing sounds like 21st century swearing. (Like I've said elsewhere as well, I didn't swear in the 70's but I swore a fair amount in the 80's and 90's and this didn't sound like that either.) (Hey, I can't JUST tell the same Star Wars stories over and over!)

     

    I want to watch this with my dad who grew up in western Mass. and would have been 26 when the movie is set and ask him what he thinks.

     

    Oh, and I LOVED the movie. And Divine Joy Randolph may not have had the most extensive arc, but she felt like a totally realized person.

  6. 35 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

    The alternative would be, showing Bond just as a narcistic, permanently drunken sexist prick who has a female assistent permanently covering up for him and doing the actual secret agent work and saving the world in his name.

     

    That is a popular pattern as well which could be used instead of making Bond female.

     

    So The Tailor of Panama mixed with Remington Steele.

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